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Biodesic: It's Alive!

This little post serves as the official launch of Biodesic.  As the book is finally done, or at least mostly in the hands of the publisher, I can turn my full attention to getting the start-up company out of my garage.

As the website says:

Biodesic is part of the new bio-economy. We provide technologies and knowledge to organizations building the future.

Our mission is to transform business and society through the development and distribution of biological technologies.

Here are examples of recent consulting projects.   Our first product is a parallel protein detection tool.  It is similar to Tadpoles but detection is much simpler, and there is no need to amplify a signal using PCR.  We believe the technology will provide novel and useful capabilities for clinical diagnostics and for engineering biological systems.  For more details, see "Technology for Sensitive Multiplexed Protein Detection".

Massive Technology Failure

If anybody reading this has emailed me within the last 14 days, I haven't received it.  After 5 years, and many, many miles, my trusty 12" Powerbook had a serious hardware failure a couple of nights ago.  Took all my email with it.  Then, when I was trying to rescue some data, the failing Powerbook took out my backup drive.  Ouch.  I seem to have a talent for finding really good technology problems...

I have normal email access now, but if you don't receive a reply from me on something sent before this weekend, please send again.

And remember, kids, back up, back up, and back up again.

Changes Afoot

I've now moved on from the University of Washington to spend more time with bio-era and to get my start-up out of my garage.  The transition has left me little time to blog, but I hope to get back to writing more as things calm down a bit.

I'm writing this from the Shangri-La Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, where I am on a trip for bio-era.  More on this in posts yet to come.

The raindrops outside are enormous and copious.